Denver Post business reporter Kate Gibbons reports from the grand opening of the Denver Voodoo Doughnut store at 1520 E. Colfax Ave. that the store will be open 24 hours a day from Wednesday to Sunday, and plans to go 24/7 in February. Here’s an excerpt from her story in the Jan. 16 business section:

Hordes gathered at the official opening on East Colfax Avenue on Wednesday, snatching up “Captain My Captain” crunch berry cereal, chocolate covered “Voodoo Doll” and bacon maple doughnuts. Most waited well over an hour before leaving with stacks of Voodoo’s pink signature boxes.

The block-long line for the Voodoo Doughnut grand opening in Denver Jan. 15, 2014. (Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post)

Voodoo Doughnut officially opens in Denver at 11 a.m. on Jan. 15, after a month of tweaking its recipes for altitude and the sort of pre-launch hype normally associated with, well, a Broncos Super Bowl run.

The Portland, Ore.-based shop, which had a soft opening in mid-December at 1520 E. Colfax Ave., was anticipating lines out the door for its signature doughnuts. Voodoo is noted for its offbeat offerings, such as the maple-bacon number (I tried it about 18 months ago in Portland, and it’s pretty remarkable in concept and execution) and the M&M-topped Marshall Mathers creation, named after the musician better known as Eminem.

Co-founders Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon told the Post’s Kris Browning-Blas in December that they searched around the world, from Amsterdam to Chicago, before settling on Denver. Who knows, maybe they just wanted the challenge of baking at altitude.

Be forewarned: Like the Oregon outlet, the store is a cash-only place. Look for a bright pink building with a ton of sugar-fanatics on the sidewalk.

UPDATE: Voodoo Doughnut Denver announced on its Facebook page that it has passed all city inspections and will open Friday.

Voodoo Doughnut co-founders Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon arrive in Denver tomorrow to find out if city inspectors will give the new Denver shop the go-ahead. If all goes as planned, Denver doughnut lovers will get a taste of the first Colfax Creams on Friday.

“We will have the flaccid opening Friday. On Jan. 15, we are having our grand, fully erect opening. And in between those there will be a semi-rigid opening,” said Shannon by phone today from the Portland-based bakery’s “intergalactic headquarters.” (That’s how he answered the phone, and yeah, he really said that. This is a company whose slogan is “the magic is in the hole.”)

Because they still have some inspections to pass, they can’t guarantee that you will get to taste a genuine Bacon Maple Bar on Friday. “We’re going to be open very sporadic hours, it’s gonna piss people off. We just ask Denver to be patient,” said Shannon, who grew up here.

Voodoo Doughnut Denver will open in December. (Kristen Browning-Blas, The Denver Post)

Here’s what he said in an email:

“Things are moving along quite nicely since we got our permit. I’d say we are half done at this point. We have a predictive date of being able to have a soft opening on Friday, December 13th. we will have a Grand Opening in January. We just drove the new Voodoo van to Denver and left our CEO there and he is running the show until we open.”

They will miss Hanukkah by a couple of weeks, but this will be like Christmas, New Year, Kwanzaa and Festivus and rolled into one glazed, cream-filled Friday the 13th frenzy for Denver doughnut lovers. Let the wild voodoo rumpus begin.

The walls are painted, the signs are up. (Kristen Browning-Blas, The Denver Post)

The first Voodoo Doughnut location outside of Oregon, in Denver at 1520 E. Colfax Ave., will open “absolutely in 2013,” says co-founder Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson.

I checked in with the dough mogul to see how construction on the 2,800-square-foot store is going. He is a little hesitant to announce an opening date, partly because you never know with construction projects, and partly because Voodoo fans can be, shall we say, avid in their anticipation.

Big news for Front Range doughnuts fans: Glazed and Confuzed is opening its first brick-and-mortar shop at 5301 Leetsdale Drive in Denver. The target date is to launch by Nov. 1.

Josh Schwab is the baker behind the operation. A veteran chef in Hawaii and the Mile High City, he’s been peddling his goodies at area farmers markets, and also sells them at Kaladi Coffee (Saturdays), the Weathervane Cafe (Sundays) and The Little Owl (Wednesdays.)

His creations include a doughnut that evokes a root-beer float, plus a maple-glazed doughnut topped with bacon. Schwab knows his dough: He sold 1,000 of his creations during the weekend of the recent Chipotle Cultivate Festival, where he had a booth.